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Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. What the U.S. needs, the author argues in a trenchant review of the nation's foreign policy, is a coherent public philosophy...
...Plain is more of the same, although here and there the pickle-barrel philosopher scrapes bottom. The new book offers nothing as trenchant as Only in America's "Vertical Negro Plan," which solves the problem of painless school integration by removing seats from classroom desks-on the theory that white Southerners think nothing of associating with Negroes when they are standing in elevators, supermarket queues, and the like. In the second collection, there is more blandness than bite, although Golden does return to the subject of segregation: "Free of charge, I offered the $64,000 people an idea...
...died, as befitted a gentleman, of the gout. His presence at court gave him plentiful opportunity to observe the follies of others, and his several terms of exile allowed him time to reflect on his own. The celebrated Maxims that resulted established him as the most trenchant aphorist...
Arthur Koestler, 53, is an ex-rebel without a cause. In the '305, he was a Communist; in the '40s and well into the '50s, a trenchant antiCommunist. While he remains as firmly anti-Red as ever, he seems to have wearied of the battle. A few years ago, the author of Darkness at Noon announced: "Cassandra has gone hoarse and is due for a vocational change." Lately, the polemicist has turned pedagogue. The Sleepwalkers is an animated and diverting lecture on cosmology, man's vision of the universe from the Babylonians to Newton...
Trim, twinkle-eyed Bishop Bayne, 50, is noted for his energy as well as his outspoken, often unorthodox ways; at last summer's five-week-long Lambeth Conference, he was chief architect of a trenchant report on "The Family in Contemporary Society," endorsing contraception as a liberating force in family planning...